According to Housing Instability Among Our Nation’s Veterans, 1.5 million veteran households suffered from severe housing cost burden in 2011, spending more than 50% of their income on housing. There…
NLIHC and the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities each released new reports on the housing needs of veterans. NLIHC’s report, Housing Instability Among Our Nation’s Veterans, explores the issue…
The National Alliance to End Homelessness launched its “Never Another Homeless Veteran Campaign” at an event at the Newseum in Washington, DC on November 6. The two-year campaign supports the…
Representative Derek Kilmer (D-WA) introduced the Housing Native Heroes Act of 2013, H.R. 3418, on October 30. The bill would set aside up to 5% of Veteran’s Affairs Supportive Housing Voucher (VASH…
NLIHC President and CEO Sheila Crowley testified before the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on November 7 at a hearing, “Housing Finance Reform: Essential Elements to Provide…
Reaching agreement on an FY14 budget entails negotiations around replacing sequestration and budget caps on one hand and generating revenue through taxes on the other hand. The bipartisan Committee…
The impact of continuing sequestration through FY14 would be devastating for the lowest income households seeking rental housing resources. On November 6, the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (…
HUD published the long-awaited public housing Capital Fund final rule on October 24. Fundamentally, this rule implements changes made as part of the Quality Housing and Work Responsibility Act of…
HUD reports that as of October 25, 2013 it had received 459 Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD) conversion applications that could affect more than 76,000 units of public housing and Moderate Rehab…
HUD has extended the comment period for the proposed housing counseling rule by one month (see Memo, 9/20). Comments are now due on December 12. The rule would implement changes made to the HUD…
A November 4, 2013 Federal Register Notice announces HUD’s renewed intent to create a Small Multifamily Building Risk Share Initiative. NLIHC is concerned about HUD’s intent to “remove affordability…
Webcasts designed to promote understanding of the HOME Program requirements are posted on the OneCPD website. The first four webcasts, along with PDF transcriptions, focus on changes contained in the…
